so i started inferno today and im glad to say that New Tristram is now paved with fire. 4 frogs moving faster than anything ive seen in this game leaving paths of fire and arcane fucking twirlers at every corner with extra fucking health. sadly i shut down after screenshotting but litrally all of your last screenshot ^ would be red and orange with 4 fucking frogs bopping my face and licking deckard.

As melee gotta get to 300 resist all/40khp/65%+ phys mitigation unbuffed before its even sort of fun. With those stats and the right build I could tank blues/rares/bosses in inferno, then I got to Act 2 and got 1 shotted again. My advice is to get like 150 res all by farming hell or auction housing then chipping away in 3-4 person groups quests in Act 1. If you get lucky and get someone farming or some good people and get your neph valor stacks up, youll be getting a rare per blue and yellow, and 3 or so rares per boss plus 6-8 blues so youll gear quickish.

1. was this game developed to be impossible to solo after a certain point? i'm in act 2 hell and i really cannot fight off these spiders and elite packs in the caves. i can't. when i'm out in the desert, soloing elite packs is doable but i usually end up pulling everything on the map when i try to kite. the caves though, i have zero chance when i have swarms of spiders and elite mobs to deal with. there's a fundamental problem in a game when zerging mobs death after death is the only option i have to clear content. am i wrong? also, lol at the upcoming increase to repair bills in next patch.

2. is the center of this game the auction house? i feel like i've just had to buy my way through the difficulties which isn't cool at all. i feel like i should be able to find upgrades off bosses and elites that allow me to clear content without going on the ah to do so. i haven't used a boss drop since normal difficulty which is complete bullshit. blacksmithing would be cool but so far it hasnt been worth my time because it is a straight up gamble on every craft.

3. do you think blizzard could have made act 2 (every difficulty) any gayer?

1. was this game developed to be impossible to solo after a certain point? i'm in act 2 hell and i really cannot fight off these spiders and elite packs in the caves. i can't. when i'm out in the desert, soloing elite packs is doable but i usually end up pulling everything on the map when i try to kite. the caves though, i have zero chance when i have swarms of spiders and elite mobs to deal with. there's a fundamental problem in a game when zerging mobs death after death is the only option i have to clear content. am i wrong? also, lol at the upcoming increase to repair bills in next patch.

Zergin is def not what they had in mind, which is the whole thing about increasing repair costs 4-6x. The thing about soloing is you have to make sure you're a jack of all trades rather than a piece of a party. 1h barb/tank build is almost completely not viable in solo, whereas its the only way to play in a group. You just gotta find out what build/mercenary works for soloing or grouping, because as you progress into the game you really have to make sure you're on top of you shit, because dungeon crawlers are always traditionally hard as fuck. Check out DiabloFans.com for builds, I bet you'll have a better time. Also, I had a super difficult time in hell too, I think we all did. Unless you get really lucky on drops or auction house a lot, you probably need to farm up some gear to coast through Hell. Either way though, playing in a group takes a lot of pressure off of you and things become a lot easier since you have a dedicated tank and you just need to worry about dps. Sometimes youll get lucky and get someone whos gear makes up for any shortcomings in your own gear, which is how I bridged the inferno gap as a melee tank.

lezpch wrote:

2. is the center of this game the auction house? i feel like i've just had to buy my way through the difficulties which isn't cool at all. i feel like i should be able to find upgrades off bosses and elites that allow me to clear content without going on the ah to do so. i haven't used a boss drop since normal difficulty which is complete bullshit. blacksmithing would be cool but so far it hasnt been worth my time because it is a straight up gamble on every craft.

Personally I didn't buy one thing off the auction house until I finished Act 1 inferno. So off of drops/blacksmithing I bridged the nightmare>hell gap and the fucking massive hell>inferno gap as a melee tank.

lezpch wrote:

3. do you think blizzard could have made act 2 (every difficulty) any gayer?

Absolutely not. Especially because I went from 300 resists>800 resists and still get 3-4 shotted by everything in A2 inferno. But Act 2 in D2 was the same desert poison bullshit.

Jay Wilson (director of the game): "Internally we have this super hardcore test team that tested Inferno and we got to the point where they thought it was challenging enough and then we doubled it because we knew that no matter how good we are, our players are going to be better."